Dichotomy

//daɪˈkɒtəmi//

Synonyms for "dichotomy" (63 found)

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Translations

55 translations across 32 languages.

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Armenian

1 entries
  • երկատում noun (separation or division into two)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • çatallanma noun (separation or division into two)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • дыхатамі́я noun (separation or division into two)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • разполовяване noun (separation or division into two)

Catalan

1 entries
  • dicotomia noun (separation or division into two)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 二分法 noun (separation or division into two)

Czech

1 entries
  • dichotomie noun (separation or division into two)

Danish

4 entries
  • dikotomi noun (separation or division into two)
  • dikotomi noun (logic: division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive)
  • dikotomi noun (taxonomy: division into two subordinate parts)
  • dikotomi noun (biology: bifurcation in a stem or vein)

Dutch

2 entries
  • dichotomie noun (separation or division into two)
  • tweedeling noun (separation or division into two)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • diĥotomio noun (separation or division into two)

Finnish

4 entries
  • dikotomia noun (logic: division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive)
  • dikotomia noun (biology: bifurcation in a stem or vein)
  • kahtiajako noun (separation or division into two)
  • kahtiajako noun (logic: division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive)

French

1 entries
  • dichotomie noun (separation or division into two)

German

2 entries
  • Dichotomie noun (separation or division into two)
  • Zweiteilung noun (separation or division into two)

Greek

1 entries
  • διχοτόμηση noun (separation or division into two)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • kettéosztás noun (separation or division into two)

Italian

1 entries
  • dicotomia noun (separation or division into two)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 二分法 noun (separation or division into two)

Korean

1 entries
  • 이분법 noun (separation or division into two)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries
  • dikotomi noun (separation or division into two)
  • dikotomi noun (logic: division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive)
  • dikotomi noun (biology: bifurcation in a stem or vein)
  • todeling noun (separation or division into two)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • dikotomi noun (biology: bifurcation in a stem or vein)

Occitan

4 entries
  • dicotomia noun (separation or division into two)
  • dicotomia noun (logic: division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive)
  • dicotomia noun (taxonomy: division into two subordinate parts)
  • dicotomia noun (astronomy: phase of the moon)

Polish

1 entries
  • dychotomia noun (separation or division into two)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • dicotomia noun (separation or division into two)

Punjabi

2 entries
  • ਦੁਫੇੜ noun (separation or division into two)
  • ਪਾੜਾ noun (separation or division into two)

Romanian

1 entries
  • dihotomie noun (separation or division into two)

Russian

1 entries
  • дихотоми́я noun (separation or division into two)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • dà-fhillteachd noun (separation or division into two)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • dihotomija noun (separation or division into two)
  • dvodioba noun (separation or division into two)

Spanish

1 entries
  • dicotomía noun (separation or division into two)

Swedish

2 entries
  • dikotomi noun (separation or division into two)
  • tudelning noun (separation or division into two)

Turkish

2 entries
  • diktomi noun (separation or division into two)
  • çatallanma noun (separation or division into two)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • дихотомі́я noun (separation or division into two)

Sample sentences

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That is a false dichotomy.

Source: tatoeba (3318763)

The work-play dichotomy has something to do with the left-right brain dichotomy.

Source: tatoeba (4646811)

Compiled and co-edited by Maria Ebrahimji and Zahra Suratwala, the book "I Speak for Myself" contains first-person narratives by 40 Muslim women born and raised in the United States who, as the editors point out, have been "negotiating a dichotomy of Islamic and Western values since birth."

Source: tatoeba (10059749)

The nature of the Germanic-Mediterranean dichotomy of English vocabulary seems still a novelty for many people, including my neighbours, the Wongs, who are multiracial from Fiji, once a British colony. The more educated an Anglophone is, the more acrolectal Mediterranean is the vocabulary. The less educated an Anglophone is, the more basilectal Germanic is the vocabulary. The late inventor, Buckminster Fuller, was very experimental in his English writing, as he concocted new-fangled words from Mediterranean and Germanic roots. He thought that using words only found in the dictionary was like living in a prison.

Source: tatoeba (11895408)

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